Savages

[SEETHING POST-PUNK] Rare is the band that actually comes across as worthy of all the buzz being stirred up around it. One of those singular acts is a U.K. four-piece called Savages. How this quartet of women has risen above the noise is by finding new nooks to explore in the picked-apart bones of post-punk. The band’s upcoming Matador release, Silence Yourself, slashes at the gut with razor-like guitar tones, shoving sharp-edged treatises on gender politics and desperate living in among the entrails. It’s intense, sexy and more than a little goosebump-inducing.